Marcia Haufrecht graduated from Performing Arts High School as a

dancer and got her first job on Broadway in Plain and Fancy, followed

by a national tour with Can Can. As an actress she has appeared on

Broadway, off, and off-off Broadway, as well as on television and film,

in roles ranging from Tondeleyo in White Cargo, to Queen Elizabeth

opposite Al Pacino in Richard III.

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She has performed with Center Stage in Baltimore, The Boston

Theater Company, Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre, Ensemble

Studio Theatre, and La Mama.

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Some of her film appearances have been in Dog Day Afternoon,

Prince Of The City, Daytrippers, and on TV in The Soprano’s, As The

World Turns and Law & Order, Law & Order:SVU, and Law &

Order:CI. She has more recently been seen in the films “Win Win”

as Paul Giametti's mother Gina, “The Night Listener” with Robin

Williams, and The Producers: The Musical/film version.

Additional recent films include “The Perfect Witness”, “Anamorph”

starring Willem Dafoe. She appears with pride in a Yellowbook

commercial.

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A published playwright, her plays have been produced at The Actors

Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Quaigh, The Common Basis

Theatre (all in NYC) around the country in Woodstock, San

Francisco, Texas, Florida, The Company of Angels and CSU Fullerton

in California, as well as in Australia at La Mama in Melbourne and at

the Kultur Im Gugg in Austria.

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As a director she has worked on both revivals and original plays at

Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Actors Studio, The Common Basis

Theatre and in Australia, Portugal, and Austria. For three years

(2006-2008) she has directed extremely successful productions in

Lisbon, Portugal, of “Collected Stories” at the Communa Theatre,

and at The National Theatre “Frozen”, and the Portugese premiere of

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s “Oscar & The Lady In Pink”.